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HORTICULTURE 



December 14, 19U7 



Agricultural College GreenHouses at DurKam, N. If. 



The Sectional Iron Frame with Boarded sides and Foot Piece Foundation, 

 the straight roofed palm house in the center 



Kote 



Greenhouse Construction 



AMONG THE 



Experiment Stations and Agricultural Colleges 



Now that the purely theoretical phase is a thing of the 

 past, and the public is appreciating the tremendous 

 importance of tlie work being done by tlie various colleges 

 and stations, the pressure for more greenhouses to meet the 

 demand for carrying on and expanding of this work, is 

 everywhere being felt. 



Years ago, we furnished materials for a number of the 

 Amherst houses, and the 

 students did the erecting. 

 But of recent years, the ma- 

 jority of our houses among 

 the various colleges all over 

 the country, have been the 

 Sectional Iron Frame Con- 

 struction, whicli because of 

 its lightness and freedom 

 from repairs is every way 

 practical. 



The same construction can 

 be used with either masonry 

 walls, capped bj' Iron sills, 

 or with the Cast Iron Foot 

 Piece foundation having 

 board or shingled sides. The 

 foot piece foundation as we 

 make it, is just as warm as 

 the masonry wall, and 

 enough cheaper to allow the 

 erection of more houses for 

 the same money. 



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WORK ROOM 



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Plan of the Connecticut AKriculturnl Station Greenhouses 



at Storrs. These sectional iron frame houses we are 



erecting on masonry foundations 



Our Sectional Iron Frame Greenhouse is the ideal con- 

 struction. It is so scientifically worked out, that the labor 

 of preparing materials and erecting is reduced to a 

 minimum. It is not a house that needs to be cut and fitted 

 by hand, on the job, but the entire frame is passed through 

 a line of machines in our factory, where it is cut, shaped, 

 punched, fitted and primed, ready for immediate erection. 



When the materials are 

 delivered to you, the erec- 

 tion of the frame is merely 

 a matter of bolting up the 

 iron parts and fastening the 

 screws. 



The expense of erecting 

 is thus greatly reduced, 

 practically equalizing the 

 advance in cost of the Iron 

 Frame House over the wooden 

 structure. Send for our lit- 

 eratuie. Lord & Burnham 

 Co., New York Offices, 1133 

 Broadway, corner 26th St. 

 Boston Branch, 819 Tremont 

 Bldg. Philadelphia Branch, 

 1215 Filbert Street. 



We make every part 

 of a greenhouse but 

 the glass. 

 We sell any part. 



Section showing the m*lhod of using oar foot piece 

 foundation and ice clearing eave plate 



A single section of our iron frame construction placed on 

 masonry Myalls The light iron frame only shows on this 

 side, while on the opposite, all the ^vood used is in place. 

 Tbe houses are a series of these sections united. 



